this has been pet pride 2011 brought to you by san francisco animal care and control. to find out more, visit them on the web at sfgov oh, say, can you see, by the dawn s early light, what so proudly we hail d at the twilight s last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the perilous fight, o er the ramparts we watch d, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof thro the night that our flag was still there. o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave? [speaking foreign language] [singing in foreign language] please welcome the general of the republic of the philippines. honored guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor for us to be here to celebrate the philippine- american history month. we re honored to have the honorable city mayor of san francisco, the president of the board of supervisors, former mayor brown, and other c
adoption events today. i volunteer with the animal control center and i do that every week. we re in an organization called friends of a.c.c. with that organization, you can donate money if you don t have time. if you do have time, you can come down to the shelter and volunteer to actually have one-on-one time with the animals. if you re like me and you don t have time to give to an animal, if you actually have one of your own, you can get your fix on the weekends, come in and pet them and love them and it s great. this has been pet pride 2011 brought to you by san francisco animal care and control. to find out more, visit them on the web at sfgov oh, say, can you see, by the dawn s early light, what so proudly we hail d at the twilight s last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the perilous fight, o er the ramparts we watch d, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof thro the night that our flag
[applause] hello, thank you again. before we send you a laugh, we would like to invite our special guest to come up and say a few words. thank you. thank you all. i want to thank the city of san francisco, but the mayor, the board of supervisors, and the committee that organized this event. [applause] and we cannot have survived the last 12 years next january, it can be 12 years since we ve founded this. it would not have survived without your support. for those of you who come for the first time, please go to our website and keep following our various performances. we have a big performance, a two-hour concert on november 20 in oakland. it is a fund-raising event. i hope to see many of you there. i could not have done it without my family here. [applause] this has truly become my family in the last 12 years, and in the last year, they have been all my children. i do not know how to thank them. they have done wonderful work. it is really their work. i just do work behin
my third platform is to reexamine the organizational structure of the department to ensure efficiency. my goal would be to position the department to facilitate public safety obligations that arise. i have a unique perspective to lead to a difficult economic times that require us to be able to do more with less. public safety should not be compromised. if experience, respect, and overwhelming support of the people who do the job is important to you, i m the person for the job. i look forward to your support for me this november in becoming the first asian american share of in san francisco. thank you. election day is november 8th, 2011. that is the last date to vote in person and last date for receipt of the vote by mail ballots. i am david wong, a 20-years the trend with the san francisco assurance department. i served eight years in the united states army reserves and national guard. i am actively involved with youth programs like community youth centers and others in s
these years, she continued to say, you need food. let s get you that. you need health care, let s get you that. so today i m going to have one of our other volunteers for the garden we have. how many of you know about ph.d. garden? a few of those. this is one of my favorite things. another thing barbara believes in is sustainable food, having a safe place people can come to every single day and being in a space, be comfortable. we have home grown foods. we eat together on mondays. one of our volunteers from the garden who is now one of the staff is here and he s going to talk about what the garden has meant to him and honor barbara with a basket of goods of things we have from the garden like tomato and apples. so, welcome. [applause] this is ty. thank you, ty. go ahead. well, yeah, i work at the garden. i m the garden educator. if you didn t know, it s a garden on lily and octavia, which is right off near page and oak. and everyone is invited to come by and check it out. i